When Eric's ship blows up, his statue bobs up and down. A statue this weight would not be able to bob up and down for even a second. It would just sink straight to the bottom. See more...
The studio first considered making The Little Mermaid in the late 1930s, and illustrator Kay Nielsen prepared story sketches in pastels and watercolors. Her work was studied by the film's modern-day animators, and Nielsen received a "visual development" credit on the film. See more...
starring Buddy Hackett, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jason Marin, Jodi Benson, Kenneth Mars, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. Wright (add more)
Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
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In the scene where Ariel has just been made a human and she throws her head out of the water, you can see that she has her bra on, so that, of course, no one sees anything rude. However, when she steps out of the water, she doesn't have anything on. [She always has her shell bra on.]
Corrected by Disney-Freak
When Ursula is Vanessa and turns into her sea form, Eric is in his wedding suit. Then he is in the life boat paddling out to save Ariel in his normal clothes. When someone you love is in dire need of help, you wouldn't stop and change clothes first. [The trousers have yellow stripes on their sides, which shows that he is still in his wedding suit. He just might have gotten rid of the jacket, which is quite understandable if someone intends to swim.]
In the beginning when the fish squirms out of the fisherman's hands and dives into the water, the fish exhales out his mouth. Fish inhale through their mouths and exhale through their gills. [Fish don't sing and speak though either, so I'd say this fits within the nature of the characters.]
Corrected by Phixius
Ursula is actually a squid. She has six legs not eight. [No one in the movie said she wasn't a squid. The movie reviewers just assumed she was an octopus because she does look like one and they didn't pay attention to that 6 leg issue.]
In the scene where Ariel is watching the people on the ship Ariel says to Scuttle "Not that one, the one playing the snarfblat." (Snarfblat is a pipe) the person that Ariel would be talking about (Eric) doesn't have a snarfblat, and even if she was talking about Grimsby (who does have a pipe later on in the movie) who at that point in time he doesn't have one ether. [Scuttle tells her that a snarfblat is used to make music. She obviously sees Eric playing his little flute and assumes it's another kind of snarfblat. She associates "snarfblat" with the music, not with the exact image of the pipe she found in the shipwreck.]
In the kitchen scene the chef pins down Sebastian with a fork, leaving two holes in the table. However, the holes are there before he does this. [Those are the shadows of the fork prongs.]
When Ariel is turned back into a mermaid after the sun sets and Ursula jumps overboard with her, Ariel is still wearing her dress. A second later underwater however, not only has the dress disappeared but her seashell bra has magically reappeared. [Completly true. However, Ariel was going to be changed back to exactly how she was when Ursula first changed her(with the exception of her voice) That explains how her seashells returned also it's a DISNEY film they can't realy show a person topless! As to her dress, Ariel just got of the ship and into the water before the transformation was complete.]
When Sebastian follows Ariel into the grotto where Ariel keeps her human stuff, the door swings shut. When Ariel is going to the surface to look at the ship, there is no door. She just swims right out. [The 'door' to the grotto is on the side, she swims out of the top of the grotto, or cavern.]
In the last scene, where Ariel and Eric are sailing away in the boat, the rainbow in the background that Triton casts is backwards. It goes violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Very strange. [Because it's a magic rainbow, Triton probably had to make it himself. Since he's lived underwater his whole life, I doubt he knows what a rainbow is supposed to look like (I don't).]
When Sebastian has to pull himself free when trying to sneak into Ariel's cave, the force slams him lengthways into an hourglass. When he picks himself up he rubs the top of his head - which never hit the hourglass. [When one gets flung that far, it can make one's head swim or throb. Besides, I rub my head out of habit, as it looks cool.]
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